The Unsolved Disappearance of Norma Hoyt

Miss Norma Hoyt, the sixteen-year-old daughter of Mrs. Emily W. Hoyt of 1107 North X Street, is mysteriously missing and her family and scores of friends are without a clue as to her whereabouts. The girl was last seen Thursday evening when she boarded the steamer Defiance from a summer camp on Vashon Island, telling friends with whom she had been staying that she was going home. Her family here, however, did not know she had left the camp, so no apprehension was felt until yesterday when it was learned that she should have arrived here four days ago. Immediately the police department was notified and a systematic search began, but the girl's disappearance remains shrouded in mystery. Foul play is openly hinted at, as family members declare she would not go away of her own accord. Whether or not Miss Hoyt landed when the Defiance reached here last Thursday is unknown; one theory suggests she may have fallen overboard, though this is not generally believed.